The aesthetic surgeon as artist

Harvey Cushing, Surgeon, Author, Artist

ELEMENTS OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. By Miriam Scott Lucas. Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger, 2d edition, 1950. 357 pp. $4.75. The second edition of this college text of human physiology shows very little change from the first edition. Despite the statement in the preface that the section on the nervous system is completely rewritten, there seems to have been no rewriting at all of this section, but merely...

The Gentleman Artist-Surgeon in Late Victorian Group Portraiture

In this article I consider the ways in which group portraits of surgeons, a genre associated with inscriptions of corporate membership and institutional authority, reflected the complex and at times contradictory status of surgeons during the late Victorian period. Group portraits from this period offer a diverse range of representations of surgeons - from middle-class professional to hygiene r...

M.C. Escher Wrap Artist: Aesthetic Coloring of Ribbon Patterns

The Entrepreneurial Artist as Marketer

The art organisation today utilise marketing concepts and practices. Much of what is actually practiced is at best an inefficient form of marketing, and at worst an inappropriate way of securing visitor numbers, making profit from merchandising and encouraging repeat visits. The art organisation exhibits similar characteristics to the small and medium sized enterprise (SME). Contemporary resear...

Artist As Researcher, Understanding The Tools

The paper begins with a response to the nature of contemporary artists relationships to how computers have permeated the fine art domain and how they affect the creative process. How should artists utilize this tool in order to fully understand and explore its potential? Using the example of a recent project I have undertaken called 'nGen', I shall discuss some aspects of how the computer tool ...